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Updated: May 23, 2025
'An' thin an' thin whin the kettle was to be filled, Dinah came in my Dinah her sleeves rowled up to the elbow an' her hair in a winkin' glory over her forehead, the big blue eyes beneath twinklin' like stars on a frosty night, an' the tread av her two feet lighter than waste- paper from the colonel's basket in ord'ly-room whin ut's emptied.
"They prayed, an' the butter-fires blazed up an' the incense turned everything blue, an' between that an' the fires the women looked as tho' they were all ablaze an' twinklin'. They took hold av the she-god's knees, they cried out an' they threw themselves about, an' that world-without-end-amen music was dhrivin' thim mad.
By rights he should have been homely. Maybe he was too; but somehow, with that twisty smile of his workin', and them gray-blue eyes twinklin' at you, the word couldn't be said. "Look at him, Shorty!" says Pinckney. "Six feet of futile clay; a waster of time, money, and opportunity." "The three gifts that a fool tries to save and a wise man spends with a free hand," says Larry.
"I'm goin' to pull out, myself," sez I, "but I went on my farewell libation last night. Where might your home be?" "Texas," sez he. I straightened up. "Know the governor?" sez I. "Some," sez he, his eyes twinklin'; "he was my sister's youngest brother." "Your sister's youngest brother?" sez I, an' then I tumbled. "Say," I yelled, jumpin' to my feet, "you don't mean that you're it yourself?"
Weel, it was gey late when we got back to oor hotel, an' we juist had a bit snack o' supper, an' up the stair we gaed. We were three stairs up. We had a seat, an' a crack an' a look oot at the winda, for we saw a lang wey ower the toun, an' it was bonnie to watch the lichts twinklin' an' to hear the soonds. Twal o'clock chappit, an' we thocht it was time we were beddit.
If I had my way them chaps what's supposed to be keepin' a look-out should get six dozen at the gangway to-morrer mornin'." "Hurry up with that flare, lads," I exhorted. "Be as quick with it as you like." "Ay, ay, sir! we shall be ready now in the twinklin' of a purser's lantern," answered the man who was preparing the torch. "Now, Tom, where's that there binnacle lamp again?
"This is unfortunate," muttered Jacques, as the party landed and endeavoured to wring some of the water from their dripping clothes; "an' the worst of it is that our guns are useless after sich a duckin', an' the varmint knows that, an' will be down on us in a twinklin'." "But we are four to one," exclaimed Harry. "Surely we don't need to fear much from a single enemy."
"Nothin' but Twinklin' Island an' father an' me." There was silence then, but the Man watched the strong, straight lines of her face, her keen black eyes, her wealth of black hair tumbled into the back-fallen sunbonnet. At length he said quietly: "Think I'll g'long over with you to your island, camarada. Maybe your father's got a bite o' something for a hungry man. I pay the freight, sabe?
"Oh, some thought that he was the one who killed Seth an' carried off the girl. He had been seen hangin' around, an' so he was suspected. But it wasn't Sam, I tell ye. It was the devil, an' they found that out to their sorrow." "In what way?" "They were campin' one night in the woods when in a twinklin' they were all knocked senseless.
Don't let 'em hit ye, or ye'll be a pink pool in the twinklin' of yer eyelid. 'Tis no joke. "Are they more powerful than firearms?" "I dinna say, lad. But they're th' devil's own weapon for fightin'." Chick did not answer he had heard a low command from the Geos. Next instant the space before them was illuminated by clear white light, in the form of a circle bright as day.
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